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magpie: one place to pick every agent's model, from the menu bar
Small desktop app (menu bar + TUI + CLI, under 15MB) by yetone that lists every coding agent on the machine and lets you switch each one's model with one click; includes a local gateway on 127.0.0.1 speaking OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini wire APIs with automatic failover when a quota runs out.
Why it matters
First practical fix for the every-agent-keeps-its-model-in-its-own-file problem: Claude Code on Kimi, Codex on DeepSeek, Gemini CLI on GLM, plus shared subscriptions across agents and per-provider cost accounting.
What you could build with it
An indie developer running Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI side by side could install magpie to route each agent onto the cheapest capable model and auto-fail over when a subscription quota runs dry, cutting monthly model spend without hand-editing config files.
Does it hold up?
Strong early signal — thousands of stars, shipped desktop/TUI/CLI builds across macOS/Linux/Windows — but no independent hands-on review surfaced yet, so real-world reliability is unverified.
Built with magpie
- GitHub Trending digest 2026-09-27 — magpie editor's pickgithub · Trending digest highlighted magpie as a top repo of the week: macOS menu-bar utility routing Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI to any backend model.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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